why does breastfeeding feel so weird?

DD is 17 months and generally only feeds during the night out, once or twice.

Over the last few weeks feeding her had become uncomfortable, not in a sore way, but in a tickly nails down a blackboard kind of way. It makes me curl my toes and wish for it to hurry up, it's awful.

If, on the rare occasion she sleeps through, I feed her as soon as she wakes and don't have this feeling. It's just during the night.

We had previously night weaned her but started feeding her again during the night after teething and illness and everything else failing to get her back to sleep. It's like my body is protesting to these night feeds.

Has anyone else had similar? I thought it might pass but if anything it gets worse. I end up getting frustrated at her during a feed which isn't fair as she's not done anything wrong!!

I used to get this in the night only, too. Personally I think it was to do with the fact that I was slowly falling asleep, and the BF was waking me up IYSWIM. It was a bit like having a bout of restless leg syndrome in bed - unpleasant stimulation when your body is switching off ready for sleep.

My 20mo feeds at night and tends to 'rest' her teeth on my nipple as she's falling asleep, to which I have the same reaction as you. Sometimes carefully unlatching her and swapping sides helps (and if she's well asleep she just rolls away at that point ).She never does it during the day when fully awake. It tends to be worse if she's unwell.

Sounds like breastfeeding aversion to me, too. I have it with my 18 month old, but not my 6 week old. Very annoying! Have had to put limits on the number and length of sessions for DD1 as I just can't handle the feeling. Getting plenty of rest and hydration helps, though.